Parents Can Help Teenagers Struggling with ‘Ever Present Need to be Connected’

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The last week of July, Scooter Kellum and other youth leaders from Taylor Road Baptist Church, Montgomery, drove a group of teenagers away from the Ocoee River and back into the reach of a cell phone signal.

And the whole carload of teens’ phones lit up.

“It’s amazing how dependent we get on the internet,” said Kellum, youth ministry strategist for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, talking about himself. (continued…)

Read the full story from The Alabama Baptist newspaper – http://www.thealabamabaptist.org/parents-can-help-teenagers-struggling-with-ever-present-need-to-be-connected/

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